08/18/2026
Informed Consent shouldn’t threaten your narrative of you’re correct.
I read that quote and honestly, that’s probably the best, profound fact I’ve read on social media for a while.
Think about it…in the birth sphere we hard stress informed
consent/informed choice. We stress educating yourself with a wide variety of resources so you have a wide variety of evidence to base your individual decisions regarding care options.
And the structure of industrialized medicine pushes back harder on their preferences being the evidential best choice without discussion.
Informed consent shouldn’t threaten ANY narrative if it’s correct.
Why does asking questions about…[pushing pitocin, induction of labor, delayed cord clamping, delayed or refused specific vaccines…the list is LONG here] create such a hostile environment for birthing women and hospital systems?
Sometimes it’s the approach. We walk into their system knowing what they consider protocol and demand immediate changes. That’s not necessarily wrong, but it is pretty shortsighted. You know they have specific systems and expecting them to alter that is bordering on ridiculous.
Maybe it’s a doctor who is already entertaining questions of his own and you come in, the 100th visit of the day, ‘judging’ his education and training, demanding a blind eye to all he believes in. I’d have a hit do an attitude as well. So would you.
There is really set firm right or wrong. It’s a matter of perspective. From the perspective of modern medicine training, they are the ‘right’ side. From the perspective of ever-growing and ever-changing medical knowledge, we are skirting the ‘right’ side as well.
But of a decision is medically appropriate, informed consent doesn’t threaten it.
Wants don’t dictate appropriateness.
Individuality, your individual medical need at any given point, should dictate appropriateness.
That’s where things get stalled in industrialized medicine. The system we walk into these days is largely lacking in individuality. Protocols are cookie-cutter by nature. Nuances aren’t always considered important.
But yes, the bottom line needs to be clear.
Informed consent shouldn’t threaten your narrative if it’s correct.
